Themes and design
Custom Shopify theme or a Theme Store theme: how to choose
What a custom theme and a Theme Store theme each cost in time, budget and upkeep, and which stores are better served by each.
Themes and design
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Themes and design
A guide to the Dawn theme on Shopify
How to set up and customize Shopify's Dawn theme: homepage, header and footer, colors and fonts, product pages, Liquid and apps.
Themes and design
The best free Shopify themes: top picks for your online store
A list of Shopify themes with what each one is good for, from Dawn and Sense to Prestige, Warehouse, Motion and Flex.
Themes and design
The best free Shopify themes on Reddit: a comprehensive guide
What Reddit users say about free Shopify themes, the ones they recommend, when a premium theme is worth paying for, and how to customize a free one.
Themes and design
The best free Shopify themes and how to pick one
What free Shopify themes offer, how they compare with paid themes, and how to choose, test and customize one for your store.
Themes and design
The best free themes for Shopify to improve your online store
Why Shopify's free themes are a solid start, which features to check, how to compare themes in the Theme Store, and how to install and set one up.
Themes and design
The top 100 Shopify stores to watch
Shopify stores worth studying, from Gymshark, Allbirds and Glossier to Kylie Cosmetics and Warby Parker, and what drives each one's success.
Themes and design
How to use a Shopify theme detector
How Shopify theme detectors identify the theme a store uses, how to check the page source yourself, and why custom themes often go undetected.
Themes and design
Creating a standout Shopify website: inspiration and best practices
Best practices for a Shopify website: brand identity, navigation, mobile speed, product pages, SEO, trust signals and testing what works.
Themes and design
Top free Shopify themes and tools for 2025
Where to find free Shopify themes, when a custom theme is worth it, and the user experience and upsell tactics that make any theme sell better.
Themes and design
A sample of Shopify stores: designs to inspire your ecommerce store
What successful Shopify store designs have in common, with examples from Nili Lotan, Allbirds and Gymshark, and how to apply them to your store.
Themes and design
The best free Shopify themes for your online store
Free Shopify themes for fashion, beauty and tech stores, the features that matter, best practices for using one, and mistakes to avoid.
Themes and design
Sample Shopify websites: a guide to inspiring ecommerce designs
What the best sample Shopify websites do well: visual storytelling, design trends, community, conversion details and niche examples.
Themes and design
A step-by-step guide to removing the sale badge on Shopify for a clean product display
How to hide Shopify's sale badges with a CSS rule or by editing the Liquid snippet that prints them, and how to test and roll back the change.
Themes and design
The list of Shopify stores in the USA: brands to know and how to find them
US brands that run on Shopify, how to tell whether a store uses Shopify, and what the successful ones have in common.
Themes and design
Shopify product image sizes: best practices and tips
The image size Shopify recommends for products, which formats to use, and how to optimize photos for speed, SEO and mobile screens.
Themes and design
10 innovative sample Shopify stores to spark your creativity
Ten Shopify stores, from Alo Yoga and Kith to Crown & Paw and Taylor Stitch, and what each one does well in branding and design.
Themes and design
How to use a theme detector on Shopify
What a Shopify theme detector shows, how to use one, which tools to try and how to apply the findings to your own store.
Themes and design
A simple guide to removing 'Powered by Shopify' from your storefront
How to remove the Powered by Shopify text from your store's footer, without code in the theme language editor or by editing the footer code.
Themes and design
How to find Shopify stores for inspiration
Ways to find Shopify stores worth studying: search operators, directories like BuiltWith, social media, forums and browser extensions.
Themes and design
The best free Shopify themes: a comprehensive guide
Free Shopify themes for fashion, beauty, tech and home stores, how they compare with paid themes, and tips for customizing the one you pick.
Themes and design
How to build a Shopify website: plans, themes, setup and growth
Build a Shopify website step by step: choose a plan, pick and customize a theme, set up payments, shipping and taxes, then market and secure it.
Themes and design
Building a website with Shopify: a complete guide
Build a website with Shopify: themes, navigation, customization with Liquid and apps, marketing tools, products, analytics and scaling.
Themes and design
A guide to the Prestige Shopify theme
What the Prestige Shopify theme offers, how to customize it, its sales features like hotspots and the slide-out cart, and alternatives.
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